HRW: Saudi coalition is evading liability in Yemen

The Saudi-led coalition is dodging international liability for its airstrikes on Yemen, Human Rights Watch reported.

The organisation contacted members of the coalition to release information on their own investigations of law of war violations whilst conducting airstrikes in Yemen. No member to date has responded.

“No coalition member can claim clean hands in Yemen until all its members explain their role in scores of documented unlawful attacks,” Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of HRW, said.

The Saudi coalition failed to investigate the 25 August Sana’a hotel attack in the Faj Attan neighbourhood which killed 16 and wounded 17, the group said.

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Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has recently criticised the United Nation’s latest Yemen report. Adel Al-Jubeir claimed that Saudi Arabia invited UN members to oversee how they choose targets in Yemen but no officials visited the Kingdom.